Foreign soil / Maxine Beneba Clarke.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 267 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733632426; 0733632424Subject(s): Short stories | Race -- Fiction | Refugees -- FictionGenre/Form: Short stories. DDC classification: A823.4 Awards: Winner of the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013.Summary: The book is called Foreign Soil. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F CLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | AL42100056618B |
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013.
The book is called Foreign Soil. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.
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